A Prosody Handbook
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Author(s)Karl Shapiro, Robert Beum
PublisherHarpercollins College Div
ISBN / ASIN0060459603
ISBN-139780060459604
Sales Rank1,611,561
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Heree is a practical guide to versification: concise, readable, and fill with examples from English and American poets of many periods. Color, stress, quantity, pitch of syllables; th efoot, the line; meter and rhythm, tempo; rhyme and its uses; stanza form -- all these elements of prosody are considered.